A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

The known black holes that populate the universe fall into two types: those up to a few dozen times the mass of the sun and ...

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New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

Recent discoveries about black holes, including intermediate types and plasma jets, transform our cosmic understanding.

Galactic Burp In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an ...

Astronomers have discovered an important piece of the puzzle of how supermassive black holes were able to grow so quickly in ...

Researchers discovered a surprising water-bound black hole with 140 trillion times the water of Earth’s oceans combined.

The Milky Way has its own supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. Main sequence stars (like our Sun) make up about 90% of the stars in the sky. When they die, main sequence stars up to ...